Sonos Playbase Review

“The opening of the episode starts with Stanis’ ship sailing towards King’s Landing at night on rough seas. I didn’t hear any surround effects of the waves or the rain coming from behind my head, nor would I expect to, but the surround field organically wrapped itself around the front half of the room until it ended up embracing my ears. Later in the episode, as a large part of Stanis’ fleet is being immolated by Tyrion’s wildfire, there was even a time when it seemed as if the sound of flying debris actually did originate from slightly behind me. In terms of rear-soundfield extension, Playbase was equal to or—in most cases—better than any of the other singlecabinet, faux-five-channel soundbars I’ve listened to”